Who’s Gonna Pay For These Donuts, Anyways?
@ Alphawood Gallery
2401 N. Halsted St.,, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Wednesday, August 30th, from 6PM - 8PM
This experimental documentary chronicles Janice Tanaka’s 50-year personal search for a father she has not seen since she was three years old. As a young man, the FBI arrested him for opposing the incarceration and diagnosed him as schizophrenic with paranoid tendencies. Tanaka finally finds him in a halfway house for the chronically mentally ill in Los Angeles’s skid row. Dr. Donna Nagata (Professor at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and Author of Legacy of Injustice: Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment) offers a post-screening conversation on the long-term psychosocial consequences of the World War II incarceration among Japanese Americans.
ABOUT THEN THEY CAME FOR ME:
What does an American look like? Who is welcome in this country? What is every American’s duty in the face of racist government action? These and other important questions are posed by Alphawood Gallery’s first original exhibition, Then They Came for Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII and the Demise of Civil Liberties, debuting Thursday, June 29 and continuing through November 19, 2017. Then They Came for Me at Alphawood Gallery (2401 North Halsted Street, Chicago) is free and open to the public.
Then They Came for Me examines a dark episode in U.S. history when, in the name of national security, the government incarcerated 120,000 citizens and legal residents during World War II without due process and the constitutional protections to which they were entitled. Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, set in motion the forced removal and imprisonment of all people of Japanese ancestry (citizens and non-citizens alike) living on or near the West Coast. During this 75th anniversary year of Executive Order 9066, we look back at this shameful past to learn lessons for our present and future in the face of new challenges created by fearmongering and racism at the highest levels of government.
Then They Came For Me was organized in partnership with the JASC – Japanese American Service Committee.
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